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(Sec. 11. 03 ( 2) (a) con ' t ) 11-3 shall be not less than seventy- (d) The maintenance and repair five ( 75) feet; measured hori- of non-conforming boathouses zontally, from an ordinary high- which are located below the or- water mark unless otherwise spe- dinary high-water mark of any cified by the County Flood Plain navigable waters shall comply Zoning Ordinance provisions. with the requirements of section (b) Reduced setback: Proposed 30 . 121 of the Wisconsin Statutes. primary buildings which will be located within 200 feet of exist- Section 11. 04 SHORE COVER. ing primary building(s) , which have a setback of less than 75 ( 1 ) Purpose: To maintain trees feet , may have a reduced setback and shrubbery in the shoreland as follows : areas for protection of scenic beauty, control erosion and re- -- 1. Where there is a primary duce effluent and nutrient flow building on each side of the pro- from the shoreland. . These provi- posed site, the setback for the sions shall not apply to the r"e= proposed building shall be the moval of dead,. diseased. or dying average of the setbacks of the trees or shrubbery or to silvi- existing buildings. cultural thinning upon ' recommen- 2. If there is an existing pri- elation of a forester . mary building on only one side, ( 2) Shoreline cutting: Tree and the setback for the proposed shrubbery cutting in a strip par- building shall be the average of alleling the shoreline and ex- the required ( 75 ' ) setback and tending 35 'feet inland from all the existing building ' s setback . points along the ordinary high- 3. Other setbacks may be per- water mark of the shoreline shall mitted by the Board of Adjust- be limited in accordance with the ment as per section 10 . 26( 6) (c) , following provisions: Dane County Zoning Ordinance. (a) No more than 30 feet in any 100 feet, as measured along the ( 3) Boathouses: ordinary high-water mark, may be (a) Boathouses shall not be con- clear cut to the depth of the 35 structed below the ordinary high- foot strip. water mark. (b) Natural shrubbery shall be (b) . Boathouses shall not be preserved as far as practicable utilized for human habitation. and, where removed, it shall be (c) Height of a boathouse shall replaced with other vegetation be measured vertically from the that is equally effective in re- ordinary high-water mark . Rail- tarding runoff, preventing ero- ings may be placed on top of the sion and preserving natural boathouse provided the railing is beauty. not solid in appearance and not ( 3 ) Alternate cutting: A special greater than 3. 5 feet in height. cutting plan allowing greater cutting may be permitted by the Fourth Qtr . , Supp. #12, 5/92